EUGENE -- The OSAA Class 6A boys track championship might realistically have been decided by a broken foot, but for champion Tigard it was all about depth, heart and feeding off the competitive energy of one another.

The Tigers' lone victory came in the final race of the OSAA Class 6A, 5A and 4A championship meet Saturday at Hayward Field when senior Jordan Latt crossed the finish line as the anchor of the 4x400 relay team to give Tigard 10 points.

The Tigers needed each one to earn a 50-49 team victory over Barlow.

"We knew we were going to compete for a state title," Latt said. "And if we weren't going to win it, we were going to make somebody else earn it."

Tigard qualified 14 boys for the state meet, with many picking up points throughout to get the team win over the Bruins of Gresham, who were led by Arthur Delaney. The junior won the 100 meters and broke former Churchill and Oregon Ducks star Jordan Kent's record in the 200 with a time of 21.28 seconds.

Winning with contributions from so many made the team victory even sweeter, said Tigard coach Erik Smith, who wondered all season if his team would overcome a series of injuries to reach its potential.

As fate would have it, an injury to Barlow throwing star Ryan Crouser helped tip the scales in Tigard's favor.

Crouser, the 2009 state champion in the shot put and discus, broke his foot this month during practice and wore a cast and was on crutches during the state meet.

Smith said Crouser's absence certainly opened the door for Tigard. The question was, could the Tigers come through?

"We knew we were kind of a dark horse, but we really fed off of that," Smith said.

For the most part, Smith said, the Tigers performed at the level he expected. And each time someone reached his potential, that fueled the next competitor on deck.

Key moments included senior Keith Kostol placing fourth in the high jump (6 feet, 4 inches) to earn five points after being seeded fifth (four points), and the 4x100 relay team placing fourth without Latt, who was nursing a sore hamstring. Latt later placed third in the 400 meters (49.11) before anchoring the 4x400 relay.

"We really fed off one another," Smith said. "(Friday night) when we were eating dinner you could almost see the energy. You could feel what our whole team brought."

Barlow coach David Kilian acknowledged that losing by one point stung. But you couldn't tell by the smiles he and his team shared after the meet.

"We came in just trying to get a trophy," Kilian said. "I'm good friends with Erik, and they earned it. It's cool to get second place behind a really good team."

But what could have been? And maybe more important, what might be in the future?

With Crouser and Delaney eligible to return next season, the Bruins can just about pencil in at least 50 points in next year's state meet.

Delaney ran 10.42 in the 100 meters, which drew gasps from the crowd and bested the meet record of 10.60. But the wind meter read 3.00 meters per second, which meant Delaney's time would not count as a record. And neither did the 10.54 run by Aloha freshman Thomas Tyner.

Later, in the 200 -- with wind not an issue -- he ran a 21.28 to surpass Kent's 21.29 set in 2002.

Delaney, who also finished third in the long jump, said facing the likes of Tyner and Jesuit senior Keanon Lowe made him reach deeper within himself.

"In the stands, getting ready, I don't feel anything," Delaney said. "But in the blocks I just get pumped."

Kilian said Delaney next year could add the 400 to his events.

"He's incredibly gifted, and when you get him into a race where he has to fight, that's a good thing," Kilian said.

The weekend turned out to be a good one for Crousers, despite Ryan Crouser sitting out.

His cousin, Gresham senior Sam Crouser, became the second athlete to sweep the boys throwing events at the state's top class level since his uncle Brian Crouser in 1980.

But he still left Eugene disappointed.

After winning the discus Friday with what for him was a subpar throw of 194-3, Sam Crouser hoped to challenge records in the shot put (66-1) and javelin (231-1) on Saturday.

Instead, he struggled with technique and discipline.

Crouser easily won the shot put with his first attempt of 60-7. Then he fouled on each of his next five throws, one of which landed on the chalk line at 66 feet.

"I wasn't being very careful," he said.

In the javelin, he increased his distance on nearly every throw but topped out at 224-9, well below his national record of 244-2, set this season at the Centennial Invitational. He hoped to reach 250 on Saturday.

Crouser said he side-armed it a bit. Gresham throws coach Gary Stautz said Crouser's footwork appeared to be off a bit. Speed was also an issue.

"I wish I would have thrown farther to make it a little more special, but I'm happy with the three state titles," the Oregon recruit said.

His father, Dean Crouser, a Gresham assistant coach, didn't view the day the same way.

"The triple was gigantic," Dean Crouser said. "My brother was the last one to do it 30 years ago. So it was a great day. I'd hate for him to be disappointed."

Class 5A: Crater dominated the team competition with a combination of dominant individual performances and great depth.

"I wouldn't say we expected this, but we knew we were going to be in the mix," Crater senior sprinter Kelley Beck said. "We knew we had a good shot. We knew everything had to go as planned and, fortunately, it did."

Leading the Comets of Central Point was junior Jack Galpin, whose winning 400 time of 49.21 tied the meet record. He also won the 200 in 21.87.

Beck placed fifth in the 400 and fourth in the 200 and anchored the winning 4x100 relay team, which ran 42.77 to break the meet record (42.89). He also anchored the 4x400 team, which won in 3:22.72.

Cleveland of Southeast Portland, which tied Thurston of Springfield for fourth place, got a record-setting performance from senior Howard Lao in the 110 hurdles.

Lao ran the best time of the day in all classes, 14.32, breaking the mark of 14.52 set in 2007 by Liberty's Darius Buckner.

Lao said he thought he could reach that mark earlier in the season after his coach Fernando Fantroy told him he could do it. But it never came until Saturday.

Cleveland's Daniel Winn completed a sweep of the distance races, winning the 1,500 in 4:01.39 after winning the 3,000 on Friday.

Class 4A: Sweet Home senior Dakotah Keys won four events to lead his team to the boys title with 58 points, ahead of second-place Ontario (43).

On Saturday, Keys won the long jump, 110 hurdles and high jump, in that order. On Friday, Keys won the pole vault with a height of 15-0.

Each championship was a virtual given entering the meet and Keys went about winning in businesslike fashion, never expressing too much emotion over any given winning moment. But upon winning the hurdles with a time of 14.54, Keys looked back to see that his teammate, senior Jake Comstock, had placed second. Keys let out a holler, clapped his hands and turned to hug Comstock.

The moment was huge, not only because Comstock had set a personal record (15.19) in the event, but because the 1-2 finish gave Sweet Home 18 points on the way to its third consecutive championship.

"I'm really happy with what I did this weekend," Keys said. "There's some things I probably could have done a little different, higher marks. But I came out here to get those points for the team and that's the most exciting part."